More on Terror Report Mistakes

Colin Powell says the errors in the Terror Report were due to honest mistakes. Waxmen, who has wondered if the numbers were skewed for political reasons, has accepted Powell's explanation for the errors.

Yahoo! News - State Dept. Understated Terrorism Attacks: "The April report said attacks had declined last year to 190, down from 198 in 2002 and 346 in 2001. The 2003 figure would have been the lowest level in 34 years and a 45 percent drop since 2001, Bush's first year as president. The department is now working to determine the correct figures.


Rep. Henry A. Waxman, who had challenged the findings, said he was pleased that officials 'have now recognized that they have a report that has been inaccurate, and based on the inaccurate information they tried to take self-serving political credit for the results that were wrong.'


Among the mistakes, Boucher said, was that only part of 2003 was taken into account."